Connacht back in HCup 2012-2013!

Swift4prez

Would be easy for the away trips but can not happen.

We have to have at least 1 French and 1 English team in the Pool.

Would love it to be Clermont and Leicester. The Sportsground would be electric.

With 3 French teams in Tier 4 so we could even get 2nd French team

completely forgot that. was eating dinner at the time.
i was try to work out the easiest group.

id pick an 'easy' group anyday over big guns.

there would be more talk done over connacht making the QF than there would be if we played toulouse or clermont etc in the group stages

For an easy pool, we would be looking to be drawn in Cardiff's Pool (easiest of Tier 1).

2nd and 4th team's in the pool would then have to be English and French

Tier 2: English - Leicester or Quinn's. Tier 2 French - Clermont or Toulon

Tier 4: If it is an English team in Tier 2 then the option for Tier 4 are Racing, Montpellier or Castres

If it is a French team in Tier 2 then only English team in Tier 4 is Exeter.

My head is exploding trying to work this out. Leave it to the God's

Its not going to be easy no matter who we get. We can only get one of four English teams who are all strong. Really hope we don't get Harlequins. Don't really want Exeter as 4th seed either:

I'd be happy with something like:
Cardiff
Leicester
Connacht
Castres

Borders no.2 wrote: Its not going to be easy no matter who we get. We can only get one of four English teams who are all strong. Really hope we don't get Harlequins. Don't really want Exeter as 4th seed either:

I'd be happy with something like:
Cardiff
Leicester
Connacht
Castres

Could live with that draw as well, Good away trips and serious chance of a few wins. The dates for the 6 round's are:

HC Round
1 12/13/14 October 2012
2 19/20/21 October 2012

3 7/8/9 December 2012
4 14/15/16 December 2012

5 11/12/13 January 2013
6 18/19/20 January 2013

Borders no.2 wrote: Its not going to be easy no matter who we get. We can only get one of four English teams who are all strong. Really hope we don't get Harlequins. Don't really want Exeter as 4th seed either:

I'd be happy with something like:
Cardiff
Leicester
Connacht
Castres

on paper racing metro would be better, team and coach's leaving/gone but paris not the best place to go.

cardiff- boat over from rosslare as girlfriends from wexford
leicester- fly knock to east midlands airport and 30mins on m1. flights 73€ (weekend 12 oct)
castre- dublin to toulouse. 1hour 14 to castre. 107€ (weekend 19 oct)

90-odd minutes to the draw. All excited now.

Toulouse or Biarritz

BIARITZ AND OF TO LONDON FOR HARLEQUINS

Biarritz, quins and the Zebras

would it be ok if i said we could get 19 points out of that group

Really glad to have avoided pool 6.

Don't know what it is about Quins but we just can't get out of each others way. Good bunch though, and the revenge factor will add a bit of spice to our home game.

There are some teams in the HEC that could stuff us like NZ did to Ireland last week, so it's good to have avoided them in that regard, but it would have been nice to get a super big name.

But BO have some great names, hopefully we can get a crowd for that. Am worried about the gates for Quins & Zebre, especially if we've already played Zebre at home in the Pro12 before the HEC game comes around,

Biarritz, Quins (again) and Zebbre.

anyone ever been to biarritz? i got the price for flights at100€ if we played them on first weekend of the draw.

airport is only 5km away from the city so transport cost would be more than 5€

"Harlequins handed kind Heineken Cup draw"

www.independent.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-...up-draw-7844301.html

We'll see about that